I have to wonder, are you and people like you just making a common joke? Or do you really think the US extracted oil from Afghanistan? Because they didn’t. They used the invasion to strong arm OPEC; but they themselves didn’t take oil. It wasn’t about increasing oil supply.
The US grew heroin there instead. And only left when stronger synthetics (fentanyl) made heroin unprofitable.
Anonymity online is going to die
At least that means sites won’t have the illusion of engagement when it’s actually just a flood of bots talking to each other, right?
…Right?
To play devil’s advocate, an issue arises when there AREN’T more verifiable sources. If someone makes an outlandish claim like “Billy Joel used to wash his ass with crisco” and cites a dubious interview, it’s hard to find a source that definitively states Billy Joel DIDN’T wash his ass with crisco. Even worse, is if there was an actual, verified instance of one time where Billy Joel washed his ass with crisco. That may have been the only time he ever did it, and it may have been done as a joke or something like that, but now we have an interview saying he did it regularly, and an example of when he did. Now it’s a lot harder to disprove.
I feel gross defending Republican talking points, now I need to go take a shower. Maybe wash my ass with crisco.
Straight into the garbage.
I’ve gotten really into Lemaitre, they’re a Norwegian electronic duo thas kind of in between Avicii and Daft Punk, as far as sound goes. To me at least, they’re incredible. Their song Reflection came on my playlist one day and… Man, you ever hear a song and just immediately know you’re going to listen to it on repeat for the next week? Then I checked out more of their songs and immediately listened to those on repeat as well.
I never hear anyone talking about them though. It’s crazy to me they’re not more popular. Their music just seems to push a button in my brain.
I say this to people and then always have to clarify:
It’s not that the World War Z movie is a bad adaptation of the book, it’s that it’s NOT an adaptation of the book at all. Other than the name, and the fact that it has zombies, there are literally no similarities between the book and the movie.
The characters are different, the settings are different, the format is different, the plot is different, the way the zombies act is different. Literally EVERYTHING.
Calling it an adaptation is like if you took The Neverending Story and changed its title to The Lord of The Rings and called that an adaptation.
It’s a relief valve. Sometimes when I find myself overwhelmed and feel like I want to collapse, I’ll go watch a bunch of emotional videos to make myself bawl for an hour or two. It’s extremely cathartic, and I usually feel a lot better afterwards.
My go-to videos are Thai commercials on YouTube. Short, super heart-wrenching, and unimportant enough that I don’t feel bad afterwards like if I watched a sad movie like Schindler’s List or Grave of the Fireflies.
Look up the group Indecline and see if they have any suggestions for civil disobedience around you.
Henchmen.
The best example I can give is 21 and 24 in The Venture Bros. Just two grunts following their supervillain boss and surviving through their knowledge of tropes. It’s fun to look into the lives of the faceless goons of villains. See what they do in downtime, or what they talk about during an operation, or how they respond to their boss’s insane demands.
Band of Brothers has that one scene where they’re walking past a bunch of German POWs and Malarkey jokingly asks them where they’re from, only for one of them to respond with “Eugene, Oregon”.
Supposedly based on a real encounter, the guy’s family was part of “The Aryan Call” wave of propaganda that happened early in the war, which had some native German families in the US return to fight for Germany. Poor guy just got swept up in his family’s decision. It was an incredibly humanizing moment when you realize everyone there, on both sides, is just some scared kid, far from home, whose only there because circumstances in their lives beyond their control brought them.
Of course, shortly after, the guy gets executed with the rest of the POWs.
What lawsuit? What are you talking about?
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If they are ethnically Russian and want to join Russia, then the solution is for them to move to Russia, NOT for Russia to just invade and take it.
Or wait, perhaps they don’t want to move to Russia because it’s a corruption filled shit hole of misery?
You don’t want the war to end as quickly as possible, you want Russia to gain territory as quickly as possible. Big difference.
Sure. And when your entire friend group starts playing one of them, you can either join in, or see if you can wait out their interest.
Or did you think everyone games in a bubble?
For some, that is the point.
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I want to buy a game online. How do I use cash?
The band saw was also created to cut through meat and bone.
Stop using slop for non-ai things.